'L'Orphie' [Garfish Size:L: 80 x 40cm A controversial and polarizing figure

A controversial and polarizing figure during his early career

the verse 'The Dutch Bubblers'

Original is oil on panel 73x62

The building is on the site of the former residence of the Bishops of London

Head and shoulders portrait of Pierre Louis Dulong

'L'Orphie' [Garfish Size:L: 80 x 40cm A controversial and polarizing figureMarine zoological study showing a side view of the Garfish, or Sea needle, (Belone belone). Plate 6 from the book Icones rerum naturalium, ou figures enlumlinees d'histoire naturelle du Nord, by Peter Ascanius, volume 1 (Copenhagen, 1772). Inscribed upper right 'Ic. Rer. Nat. Tab. VI.' Peter Ascanius was elected a Fellow of the Royal Society in 1755. Original: copperplate engraving. 1772